Zamo95

yes don't panic at all about language, BUT make sure not to have e-mails or letters in other languages, i saw the CO attacked some guy in consulate as i said in my post when she saw e-mails and letters in english, he didn't listen to him when he said that he doesn't speak english, but she kept speaking to him in english, while he was trying to reply in french replying to somthing he never asked, was a real mess, he ended up telling her that they communicate in spanish, she was like WHY your e-mails in english then,he replied that he is using some translation wibesite then she was like WHY WHY ,the CO started being angry i guess, so don't make this mistake, nothing wrong with language as long as you communicate in some language and all e-mails and letters are on same language as well. as KML said the CO youngman is really nice and speaks arabic and french, the black haired lady english-french smiling , the blonde i had ENGLISH NO smile .but to be perfect don't try to be first to be interviewed, try to be one of last persons in that room.one other thing try to ask questions also, like i have phone bills wonna take a look madam/sir ? wonna see pics? may i show you our chats ? .....try to GIVE them your proofs, because for some reason they try to be at first like ummmmm, like hesitating ,you know what i mean ? the blonde didn't wonna check our phone bills i was like here madam you can see yourself how much we talk on phone....so she took them and started checking page by page .SO try to give them as much proof as you can .

best of luck to everyone.

Simo,

It is really nice of you to post an apology though it was never needed. I'm surprised at some comments when all you did was post your interview and post your thoughts. It will be a great help to those following in Morocco. I pray you receive your call soon and then arrive home safely to Carrie.

Doreen

thank you very much myfellah, it's nice of you really,i wanted to excuse because some persons made it tragedic and thought i was celebrating while alll i wanted is to help guys here in morocco so i didn't mean to hurt anyone .

anyway am glad to have you and alll friends in this forum with their great support as always.

best regards

thank you Simo, would love to get together sometime.

Btw, I had a drink at that cafe too "BIVERLY" but after the interviw, & talked to my sweetheart:d

yes it's a nice café, i loved their (croissants) the girl in the café was like when i told her 1 café and 3 bread (croissants) hahahahaha:).

well i'm gonna give you e-mail, yahoo and phone number.

salam alikom from marrakesh

ok guys, i wanted to share some of my little experience about interview because am moroccan and i know how to help guys here that's way i said alll details, because i know MOST of them here have NO clue what's interview in USA consulate.

BUT some of you guys made it sound bad, maybe you are right it might hurt returned cases couples, but it still always to help them also because oneday inshallah they will have an other interview sheduled .

i didn't mean to hurt anyone my point is to help and most of you know that .it's like medecines it could hurt somwhere but helps alot

but sorry anyway guys

I am happy you had success, but I think it is darn low of you to come in here and blame fellow VJ'ers for their their cases being returned. You don't really know anything about their cases and it is unfair and unsupportive to blame them.

If your love IS real like you claim, why ALL the training??? Are you worried you wouldn't of passed without it?

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am sorry if you take it that way, but am sure some guys here wouldn't admit to their fiancées how they exactly screwed up their interview. am not blaming them for that because am sure they did what they were able to do, so am just trying to figur things out, i don't think there were many moroccan guys who posted every details of interview here, but me i shared my little experiences with ppl having their interview soon and it's also for ppl who had their cases returned to states and waiting inshallah for an other interview to avoid any mistakes. when i said training that doesn't have ANY thing with feelings, it's just for interview to know how to answer to their questions, my point is to train answers in english , phone numbers, adresses, because it' always the same thing for everyone having interview and even consulars are drilling questions so easily because they are used to that, so i want guys here to be like them train questions and answers so as their ears to not be surprised by questions because their girls were asking the same thing, so once they are with consular they would feel like they are with their girls . hope you dig it now right noura .?

thank you very much for discussing your point .it's all for us for you for everyone here to get things clarified and am sure many ppl here they don't mind to be blamed if it's to help them .

good luck

Simo, Congratulations and thanks for the long detailed explanation. It's terrible that we have to work so hard to justify our relationships, but unfortunately that's the difference between getting a visa and not getting one many times, and since we all want to be together, that's what we just have to do.

I'm sure your message here will help anyone else getting ready to go through the same thing.

You have certainly practiced your English here with us enough, and you will be so much more prepared for life here in the states than those who haven't. Just be prepared to not understand street talk. Poor Abdel still looks at the people he meets on the bus and says "I have no idea what you just said." He has no trouble most of the time understanding educated people though, and academic talk. You're coming to Georgia too, right? Atlanta? You'll only be about 4 hours from us so we'll have to get together some time after you and Carrie have a very long honeymoon.

thank you very much liz and abdel ,yes would be great to meet inshallah and have some nice tajine for dinner

and yes everything getting better alhmdullah and will be much better thanks to my loving brillant princess .

salam to you and abdel

Way to go Simo I'm impressed with that whole long answer part you really nailed it.

congrats & hope u get a call soon.

Btw, welcome to the "waiting for that god da** call from casa"

thank you very much mon ami hopefully we will be called for visa same day inshallah ,will let ya know then we could meet there and talk .

bonne chance .

Congrats ! Mabrook !

Can I ask a dumb question ?

Why is it that EVERYONE that goes through Casa gets on AR ? Is it like that with other embassies or just casa ?

well we're now used with that AR option, everyone wants at least to get that rather than get case returned to the states, but it's a security process for them ,maybe they have informations that some terrorits are trying to get to the states thru morocco ,and i couple girls on K-1 didn't get AR, they had their visa issued right away and told to be there next day at 3 to pick up visa .so for some reason they approve girls right away and give guys AR .

thank you very much for your post .

...If you talked this much as you did in one answer in the interview, I would've stamped your visa right there and said get out of my office you're making me crazy! lol just kidding glad everything went well ... Hope you can get home soon !!!

wait a minute... where did that little heart come from on my thingie ????

you have to tell me what zamo means too because my friend named her cat zamo, she's living with an Iraqi and he named her that but I never asked what it meant ! lol

well i don't think my zamo is like your friend's , mine is the last 2 letters of my last name and 1st 2 letters of first name : hamZA MOhamed .

dug it now ?

thank you very much for your post .

morning ladies and gentlmen

first of all i wonna thank everyone here for your support, help, sharing your experiences and everything .

so i had interview on thurs 27th finally, so am back after medical exams to share my interview experience like most of you did.

of course i went to casa on wedn in the train, spent the night in a hotel very close to train station(CASA VOYAGEURS), relaxed , watched some soccer game at the café in the evening ,got dinner and went to bed.

i woke up at 6 morning ,took taxi from hotel to consulate, was so early but good to be there to see ppl and get some stress releived before they open , so there is a nice quiet café close to consulate named BIVERLY where i took my princess's favorite bread with chocolat(croissants) with coffee helped alot to relax and get nice air .

then took my 2 big bags with tons of papers to the consulate, to start serious things. bunchs of ppl were there but most of them are lottery visa's, so first thing i did, i asked security guy he showed me my place, so it was the shortest line ,went thru secutity stuff outside then again inside, phone off leave it with security sevices,then go to wait in the room with ppl. it's a room like in class, many chairs and consular officer's windows in front of you,before you take a place ask security guy what to do and tell him your on fiancé visa,he would tell you what to do, you give passport and consulate letter from pack3 you write your phone number on it, they give some receipt to go to the other window to pay around 950 dh, back to your place with receipts waiting . plz choose a place where you can see all the consulars or at least 2 of them, that's what i did and it helped, try to concentrate on their faces and how they ask questions, how they speak ,everything .keep concentrate deeply on consulars while reading some qoran .

remember now am waiting for moroccan man to call me not consular, so be ready to give your forms ,BC, police record, so i was called by that moroccan man ,i gave the forms, BC, police record, passport photos (5cm/5cm).

then go to your place waiting ,KEEP concentrate on consulars please.

that's what i kept doing till the BLONDE lady said my name (MOHAMED HAMZA) .

the lady you guys were talking about with dark hair is really nicer than the blonde and i wonna stop here to inform you guys that they are really VERY normal persons nothing special. so don't be scared alot .

so i walked up to the window, said good morning madam to consular with a big smile ,she said hi how are you, i said fine thank you madam .she doesn't smile but dont let her scare you or embarasse you.

but i hope for everyone of you guys to get the young NICE man speaking arabic :)he is nice and funny

so i want to say girls/guys in states NOT to worry alot about consulars and stuff nothing really wrong with them at all, the thing you should worry about is your fiancé/es ,work alot on their english, speaking some english is VERY VERY VERY VERY important or at least keep working on interview's samples on phone or chats, my princess and i were training on phone and yahoo for interview she helped me alot with that (thank you my soul) but if she was a consular none of you guys would be approved hahahahah:)

anyway that's what the blonde lady aked me ,she is speaking like a machine soo fast

first she told me to swear that all informations in the forms are correct i said yes medam i swear

then started drilling questions while checking the petition documents :

how did you meet her ?

when did you meet her ?

how many times she visited you ?

how long she stayed with you ?

how many times you were together ?

do you have pics together ?

what was her trips for ? (while checking at our album)

how old is she ?

what does she doing for living ?

where she lives?

is she married before ?

children ?

are you married or married before ?

how much money she makes ?

how do you keep in touch together?

how many tmes you talking on phone?

how long you talking on phone? (while checking phone bills)

whats your phone number?

do you have other phone numbers ?

then started stamping everywhere on documents, signed some receipt gave it to me

she said ok that's fine, i'm gonna give this paper it's VERY normal don't worry , your case needs some AR in washington we will call as soon as security process is complet not longer than a month ,so she gave me(221G) i was like yes i know madam, thank you very much , then i asked her well madam sorry but my fiancé is worrying now without sleep ALLLL night poor baby, so everything is fine madam ? she said yes we will call you when AR is complete, then said thank you good luck .so it took about 25 minutes maximum.

well that was it, there was some guy with the dark haired lady he was sooo confused he was on K-1 poor guy am sure he was denied ,he doesn't speak english very well and no enough idea about interview ,so plz don't be like that, be strong and get MUCH trainings at least if you really don't speak english well ,because that guy asked him how he was communicating his fiancée if no english ,he was trying to tell her that they speak spanish but she made him confused and lost control of everything, she saw e-mails in english asked him why e-mails in eglish if she speaks spanish ,he didn't understand so he told her that he is using translation websites which NOT good for their case at all.

one other thing while training for interview try to make answers longer. when you keep talking you don't give her time to look for more questions to confuse you, i saw that blonde lady how long she is takiing to interview ppl, so i decided to take this strategie to make answers LONG .so as to stop her keep asking and me answering, because if i stop she would look for other questions. so she asked me twice if i can give her a second to check papers and informations so i think she decided to get rid of me

well am really sorry for this LONG post, but i wonna help you guys as you helped me and my princess and thank million million times for everything .

and hard luck for alll of you getting ready for interview ,my point to you is speaking english is very important, as long as relationship is serious nothing to worry about, and do MANY trainings together on phone or chat if you really don't speak english well but practice interview's questions and answers in english, when somthing goes wrong it's not consulars it is you or petition or not enough proofs, so plz try to work out all this points before interview and then don't worry about any of those ppl in the consulate.

good luck guy and thank you very much .

good girl glad you did finally, congratulations to you and said.

inshallah NOA1 on monday:) then NOA2 somtime in june or july then interview on august

really glad when my kitten told me that you were asking about the check on the phone, i was like IS SHE MAILING OFF PAPERS THEN?

good luck noura, bonne chance, haddan tayiban, buena suerte, gutes glÜck, buona fortuna

carrie and simo

no when i said to the court it's just to have adresses of certified translators that's it. of course he could ask somwhere else, or just call 160 .there is nothing to do in the courthouse at all .

good luck sarah

thank you very much KML ,yes i know they would not take that but i prefer to get it with me, i wonna get EVERYTHING with me, specially celibacy certificate as carrie and i have fiancé rings, so i don't want them to think we're married when they will see the ring in my hand.

best of luck kml.

carrie and simo

mabruk dixie, i'm sure was a long waiting time for that tiny little paper to be in your mail, was just depressing for me and my princess.

so you guys better be ready for interview soon by may 15-20 th inshallah, hurrry up

carrie and simo

inna lillah wa inna ilayh raji3on

such a very sad day in this journey, would be soo horrible for her family in the states specially her mom don't know if it's the same for her family in morocco, allah yerhamha anyway.

hi sarah,

he just has to go to court (marriages part) ask some ADOUL, he would send him to some translator, because the translator must be agreed from american or diplomatic stuff(consulate-embassy...) ,am from marrakesh, if your fiancé marrakeshi too then that's fine i could tell him where to translate his documents

here are prices:

passport ---150 DH

B.certificate----100DH

affidavit of celibacy----100 DH

police record-----100 DH

of course both french-english or arabic-english .

best of luck

carrie and simo

well take those music links also:

www.arabmusic.us

www.oghnia.com

www.mazika.us

www.6rob.com

www.6rb.com

www.ozq8.com

enjoy

well in morocco everything is possible with (tips) but in most cases to get passport should be from 1 to 3 weeks and to renew it 24 to 48 hours , i got it renewed in 24hours.

good luck in process.

simo and carrie

thank you very much liz, everything inshallah will be fine, you know that things in casa are not that good like when abdel had interview anymore, but let's keep optimistic.

hi abdel and good luck with the rest or process there .

simo and carrie

that's nice of you noura thank you very much for your support and yes nice to meet you and said in marrakesh wanted so much to meet you again then have some dinner or lunch with my family but unfortunatly didn't hear from you since that afternoon, i stayed waiting for your call while doing some errands close the place, but i know time is going so fast and you have manythings to see or do you and said.

but glad you enjoyed marrakesh and essaouira later ,inshallah oneday we will make it together you with said and me with my princess inshallah.

thanks for your thoughts and prayers, inshallah everything will be good with interview.

best of luck in your process

simo and carrie

hi everybody,

i would like to thank you guys everytime i have a chance to post here for all your supports and help, so am here to share some little experience about medical exam specially to ppl getting their cases apporved or having medical exams soon.

before the trip to casa (if not casablankish) make sure you have :

-passport

-CIN (ID)

-3 photos

-about 1100 dh (more is preferable)

you could pick one of the docs you have on the paper in pack3

i went to ZIRARI .

if you decide your trip to be on train stop in casa voyageurs or casa port

if it's the regular bus of course the bus station is OULAD ZIANE

if CTM it's close to casa port .

in all cases you just have to take a taxi to TAHA HOUCAINE STREET you pay less than 20 dh ,be there at 8:30 ,doc opens at 9.

as soon as you get in you hand your passport-ID-medical exam in pack 3-tell her when your interview is.

then you wait. she would send you later to a pharmacy about 100 m from her cabinet, to get 2 shots (309 dh), back to cabinet and wait again.

she will call you again to send you to laboratory to have your blood taken it's right in the next floor, tell them again when your interiew is, give passport, have blood taken, get back passport with a little paper , pay 360 dh then back down to cabinet. relax in the couch to be called again this time for a little trip to ALGER for X-RAYS, take a taxi for 7 dh, give your pssport again, pay 30 dh, then down stairs waiting again, once they photograph your langues make sure you get your passport BACK before you go back to doc cabinets (because you won't get x-rays resulat before at least 1 hour) so you just pick your passport and back to doc .

then be ready to meet doc for the shots ,she would check test your vision, then weight, take off your shirt lay down, answer some little questions, then look to the other part before she put 1st shot in your mussles, 2nd one in the other arm. put your shirt on and go out the girl outside will send you back to x-rays place to get results, you pay her 400 dh ,get your vaccinations worksheet duplicata

with passport and ID then you are DONE with holes in your body, make sure you go to pharmacy to get aspirine to avoid the shots not to be sooo sore.

i beg your pardon for my modest messy english

BEST OF LUCK TO ALLL OF YOU INSHALLAH.

SIMO and CARRIE.

hi kml,

glad for your great interview inshallah visa in hand on few weeks or few days, i'm having my interview next week 27th so i just wonna ask if i should be close to the window of the consulate like VERY early 5 am ,6-7 ? even if they are saying to be there at 9 .

what do i have to prepare to hand them on the window as documents ?

thank yu very much for sharing your experience and good luck with visa soon inshallah .

simo and carrie

hi hisham,

welcome to the forum, it's very nice here with alll this very wonderful guys helping and supporting ,it's because of them me and my fiancée didn't take the k3 route but k1 which better and faster.

i live in marrakesh my wife(fiancée) in georgia ,well to be honest with you have a long time to wait and alot of work to do together, collecting chats, e-mails, hopefully when she is here again take ALOT of pictures and video's if possible with family or friends....well EVERYTHING that concern you and her .

the interview is such a lottery ,depends on consular's mood somthing like that ,some got 10/15 questions others got 2/3 questions,they are mostly about her name, job, times she was with you, birth date, her family, children if she has them, you should know EVERYTHING about your wife more than what you know about yourself .well you have PLENTY of time to prepare for the interview.

hope very hard luck to you and your wife .

carrie and simo

thank you very much guys, and i think as kiya said and as we said me and my kitten that better to be sure than to be sorry later, i will take everything written in french to the translator inshallah

thanks again everyone

salam alikom

i'm really glad being here in this group me and my wife(fiancée) carrie. now i just have somthing and i need you guys to clarify me.

we have many proofs in our paperwork most are in french, like ring bill, train tickets, buses tickets, bank receipts and lately we're shopping things and furnitures for our house in the states gonna send them in a friend's container so i want to show all that for my interview as evidence as i said mostl are in french, my question is should i have them allll translated to english ????

thank you very much

well noura i talked to said this morning, i'm sure they wouldn't care now about stamps and all that, he will have to have copies of translated divorce papers, then maybe get them stamped from moroccan authority for 2dh each copy, and then he will sure need the original copies for his interview later .but for paperworks now you need just copies of papers and proofs except forms should be original and signed .

good luck kaye .

simo and carrie